The Breakfast of Champions, or should I say Breakfast of Geeks!

Mikkeller  - mikkeller.dk

Beer Geek Breakfast - 7.5% ABV

This wonderful beer is brewed by yet another genius brewer named Mikkel Borg Bjergso.  He is the owner of Mikkeller which is yet another gypsy brewery.  Just like his identical twin Jeppe Jarnit-Bjerso from Evil Twin Brewery. Wait, does this ring a bell?  It should if you are reading my blog!!!  I reviewed a fabulous beer from Evil Twin last week call I Love You With All My Stout.  You can read a full write up about the brothers in the New York Times titled  A Fight is Brewing .  It's a very interesting article and when you get to the part where he use to drink Coors Light you will think you are 5 beers in and read it wrong! Sadly, it is true.  He was in the states and drank The Silver Bullet that not only is responsible for destroying your intestines but killing werewolves.  Thank god he went back to Denmark to create amazing beers and saved us from ever having to drink a Super Cold beer again! 

Beer Geek Breakfast I will have to say is one of my favorite Oatmeal Stouts.  I love my beers to be bold and rich.  This beer just so happens to have both of these qualities and then some!  

I immediately smelled the aroma of a strong brewed coffee with a hint of smokiness lingering from the perfectly poured beer.  The head had a creamy dark caramel color that quickly left the top of the glass to reveal an amazing dark stout.  My first sip took over my taste buds with a nice bitterness of coffee and finished with mild smokey malts. As the beer warmed up a bit more flavors appeared like some chocolate but the coffee flavor still remained the forward note.  It was not not a heavy beer by any means and with a 7.5% ABV it is a perfect beer to start off a Sunday afternoon.  

My overall score for this 11.2 oz bottle of goodness is...I wish it was a full 12oz because IT IS THAT GOOD!!!  If you can get your hands on one of these give me a shout and let me know what your inner Beer Geek thinks!  

Cheers!

Kath

Eat, Pour, Love

I am sure you all have many questions as to where the hell have I been.  Maybe you are concerned that I am in a 12 step program or maybe you lost yet another friend to the cult called Pinterest!  Damn you crockpot meals and cakepops! 

Instead I was on my own quest to find the perfect beer.  It took me months to find the beer truly worthy of my blog post.  The one that blew my mind and made me want to pray to the beer gods at Wine Works to order me more.  It was almost my version of the movie where Julia Roberts travels all over the gods green earth to find the meaning of her life.  Pfffttt, the furthest I had to travel was the shit shoot called the Schuylkill to find my true meaning of beer. 

Here are just a few of the beer quests I conquered...

Harpoon Brewery

Harpoon Winter Warmer- 5.5% ABV

  One of my go to winter beers. Extremely smooth and it is a beer you can drink all day long.  We loved it so much that we went through 3 sixtels at home!  True story.

Dogfish Head Brewery

Burton Baton- 10% ABV

 This beer had an IBU of 75...I almost tore out my tongue in a feverish attempt to stop the hops from destroying all of my precious taste buds. God I hate hops. I have nothing else to say about this abomination.

Flying Dog Brewery

The Fear - Imperial Pumpkin Ale- 9% ABV

 Not a bad fall/winter brew.  The copper colored ale had a faint aroma of brown sugar and spices.  I served this in a tulip glass rimmed with cinnamon and sugar.  I believe it just made the beer complete.

Clown Shoes 

Blaecorn Unidragon - 12.5% ABV

Holy!!!!  If you can find this sex in a bottle...BUY IT!!! Jet black and sweet smell of chocolate, licorice, and malts rising to up past the dreamy caramel head. Sweet Jesus this was amazing!

Left Hand Brewery

Milk Stout Nitro - 6% ABV

Growing up one of the first rules you learn about carbonated drinks is you do not shake them before opening, unless you want to be a dick and give someone else to open.  Now forget that rule when you buy this brew. You are suppose to give it a good shake, or a heavy pour to get the perfect cascading.  Sweet smells of brown sugar, vanilla, and a hint of coffee rolls over your tongue. Nice stuff.

Mikkeller Brewery

Beer Geek Breakfast - 7.5% ABV

Ryan had this brew chilled and waiting for me on one of our visits.  What a well balanced beer.  It had the bitterness of coffee and the sweetness of vanilla.  

Goose Island Brewery

Bourbon County Stout - 15% ABV (yeah you read that right!)

Oh...My...God.  You definitely have to share this someone unless you want to flop on the floor.  Maybe that is what you want to achieve, but reaching for another beer from the floor does pose a bit of a challenge. Just sayin'.

Now...for my final review, which was another pick by Ryan. 

This is the beer that completed my soul searching. 

Hold onto your pints my friends because this beer will knock you into next Thursday!  

Westbrook Brewing Company & Evil Twin Brewery

Mini Growler - 12% ABV

I had never heard of Westbrook Brewing Company but if Evil Twin is part of the collaboration it has to be good.  Evil Twin by far is probably one of the few breweries that consistently releases a great beer. 

Just the picture should be enough...dark and dreamy!  Once poured it produced an inviting mocha colored head with excellent lacing. I could not pick up one aroma but I did get a mix of coffee, chocolate , and some toffee. What a flavor and texture.  It was not overly carbonated and  even with the high alcohol it was not harsh or boozy.  A perfect collaboration...a perfectly balanced beer...and a perfect ending to my journey.

Cheers!

~K~